I am not red-green colourblind, but have javascript turned off; all the numbers are green, but the negative ones have a minus sign in front of them.

Pump me up

It would be better if plus (+) signs were placed in front of ratings greater than zero (>>0). Then I can automatically search (at least in Firefox) for positively rated comments.

I don't think I want to search for and study negatively rated comments.

It would be better yet if double plus (++) signs were placed in front of ratings greater than 10 (>>10) and (+++) fro greater than 100. Then I can automatically search (at least in Firefox) for these.

What about advertising for ratings or running polls? Is it permissible to ask people to pump your rating up by doing the following?

Example:

*** Please click the up arrow here if you think TOD is a great place ***